A gastronomical UFO

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A gastronomical UFO

Post by neufer » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:09 pm

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Ernest C. Drury, UFO premier & leader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farmers_of_Ontario wrote:
<<The United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) was a political party in Ontario, Canada, from 1914 to 1940. The UFO had a comprehensive farmer's platform that called for the nationalization of railways, progressive taxation, and legislation that would facilitate the operation of co-operatives. In 1917, supporters of the UFO formed the Farmers' Publishing Company and purchased The Weekly Sun renaming it The Farmer's Sun to act as the organ of the UFO.

The UFO platform called for the abolition of political patronage, better educational opportunities in rural areas, cheap electric power, conservation of forests, proportional representation and "direct legislation". The UFO also favoured prohibition and budgetary restraint, two platform planks that were at odds with the views of urban Labour supporters. In 1944, the UFO joined with other farmers' organizations to dissolve into Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) and ceased to exist as a formal organization.>>
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Re: A gastronomical UFO

Post by mexhunter » Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:36 pm

neufer wrote:" The UFO also favoured prohibition and budgetary restraint, two platform planks that were at odds with the views of urban Labour supporters. In 1944, the UFO joined with other farmers' organizations to dissolve into Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) and ceased to exist as a formal organization.>>
After a wait was needed 3 years to use the term again, but now in Roswell, NM. :lol:
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Re: A gastronomical UFO

Post by neufer » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:00 pm

mexhunter wrote:
neufer wrote:
"The UFO also favoured prohibition and budgetary restraint, two platform planks that were at odds with the views of urban Labour supporters. In 1944, the UFO joined with other farmers' organizations to dissolve into Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) and ceased to exist as a formal organization.>>
After a wait was needed 3 years to use the term again, but now in Roswell, NM. :lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes wrote:
"Last year, more people were killed by automobile accidents, heart attacks, lung cancer, and natural causes combined than by any one tomato."
<<Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy cult film directed by John De Bello. Made on a budget of less than $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity.

The film opens with a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a pre-credits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal unit. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, we see the police investigating her death. One officer discovers that the red substance she is covered with is not blood, but tomato juice.

A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occur (including a man dying by drinking tomato juice made from a killer tomato and a sequence where the tomatoes attack innocent swimmers, in a parody of Jaws). While the President's press secretary Jim Richardson tries to convince the public that there is no credible threat, the president puts together a team of specialists to stop the tomatoes led by a man named Mason Dixon. Further regression has led leaders to bring in tanks and soldiers to the west coast in a battle that leaves the American forces in shambles. Dixon, walking among the rubble, sees a trail of tomato juice and decides to investigate. He ends up being chased by a killer tomato to an apartment where an oblivious child is listening to the radio. The tomato is about to kill Dixon but suddenly flies out the window. Dixon, picking up some strewn records, realizes that both times the tomatoes left him the new hit song "Puberty Love" had been on the radio. He orders Finletter to gather all remaining people and bring them to the stadium, which is soon attacked by the tomatoes. The tomatoes are cornered in a stadium. "Puberty Love" is played over the loudspeaker, causing the tomatoes to shrink and allowing the various people at the stadium to squash them by stomping on them repeatedly. Fairchild, meanwhile, is cornered by a giant tomato wearing earmuffs. Dixon saves her by showing the tomato the sheet music to "Puberty Love." He professes his love to her, in song. The film ends by showing a carrot that rises from the Earth and says "All right, you guys. They're gone now.">>
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Re: A gastronomical UFO

Post by mexhunter » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:53 pm

The feast of the "Tomatina", a real fighter throwing 45,000 people over 120 tons of tomatoes, started in the village of Bunol, Spain in 1944 and has been held every year since then.
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This is a true Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. :lol:
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